Re: Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-05-19 1:03 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

2025-05-19 5:02 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

Here's the citation to the story that Ubi the shithead plagarized.

Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix:
They committed to the narrative...
By Virginia Kruta
The Daily Wire
May 19, 2025
https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-the-fix-is-in-and-there-was-no-fix

With just days to go before the release of "Original Sin" -- a book
exploring former President Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline from
Jake Tapper (CNN) and Alex Thompson (Axios) -- everyone on the Sunday
political shows was talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they
knew it.

For those who don't spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television --
and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week's worth of
network and cable news media spin -- The Daily Wire has compiled a short
summary of what you may have missed.

. . .

Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN's
"State of the Union," telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn't
even sure Biden would be incapable of serving a second term in the
White House.

">>>>Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still

think that, but I don't know that," he said.

.@RepJamesClyburn on whether he still believes President Biden could
have served another term: "Yes, I thought that back then. I still
think that, but I don't know that." pic.twitter.com/hfRtH5REyl

-- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025

As to Biden's disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to
play defense. "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether
that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way
of knowing which one was true," he claimed.

.@RepJamesClyburn reflects on Biden's disastrous 2024 debate
performance: "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether
that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way
of knowing which one was true." pic.twitter.com/Sso7mSltX0

-- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025

. . .

Is it too late to charge Dr. Jill with elder abuse?

I don't suppose there's anything that can be done legally about the
media lies about Biden being sharp as a tack but that probably doesn't
matter. We know now that they are shameless liars and their credibility
has suffered a well-earned decline. They are surely aware of that as
their ratings/sales fall ever further.

I don't see much of an effort to clean up their acts either: they still
seem determined to gaslight the public with yet more of the same
hysteria that they greeted every word and action uttered by Trump and
his people in his first term. They only calm down when a Democrat is in
the White House and they can go into full-time fluffer mode.

It's fine though. They are destroying themselves so here's hoping
they're completely irrelevant in the near future.

You might have noticed that America works poorly with two irrelevant
national political parties.

You're not going to learn anything about the book from those talking
heads. They're the target of the book. I listened to radio interviews
with the authors. It was quite disturbing. David Plouffe spoke on record;
no one else did. Most recently, he managed Kamala's campaign.

The "original sin" of the title was not letting Biden have his choice
for running mate -- Gretchen Whitmer -- after the death of George Floyd.
No one in his administration wanted to work with Kamala and no one
thought she was ready to be president nor win an election.

But Harris was "black" so that seemed like an obvious vote-getter with
the Democrats' traditional base, even though a lot of blacks see her as
more South Asian than one of them.

She's black; no air quotes. She's not African-American (decended from
American slaves). And she's not like blacks generally as a daughter of
two university professors, although she was largely raised by a single
mother after their divorce.

I don't agree it's mixed ancestry, which applies to nearly every black
person in America, but how she grew up.

Either way, lots of obvious virtue-signalling points for including Harris
on the ticket. Too bad she was such an unlikable candidate. In any case,
America really dodged a bullet when she failed to excite the electorate.

Because it was virtue signalling, she was hampered in achieving any sort
of popularity, not to mention failing to excel at politics.

The Dems have only themselves to blame for their president parlous
state. They ended up running Biden when he was well past his prime
because he was the only one who had a chance against Comrade Bernie and
then saddled him with Harris who was much more an anchor than a sail.

Bernie's popularity plateaued. He could never come anywhere close to
winning a general election. If Bernie had been more popular, I wouldn't
have ruled him out as the nominee in 2020.

They must have seen how depleted Biden was because they hid him away as
much as they could and counted on their allies in the media to deny his
decline. Then they staged that first debate with Trump months earlier
than usual and finally EVERYONE could see that Biden didn't have another
term in him.

It hadn't occurred to me at the time but the authors pointed out that
the Biden campaign agreed to a 9 pm start time, when Biden's energy was
depleted by late afternoon. That was insanity. Nor did it help that
Biden was nursing a cold.

Personally, I think that debate happened so early because the people
pulling his strings were certain he was too far gone to run again but
hadn't been able to convince him - and Dr. Jill - that he was done so
they had the debate BECAUSE they knew he would shit the bed AND BE SEEN
TO HAVE DONE SO. It was so bad that they were finally able to get the
House and Senate to (largely) abandon him. Finally, Biden understood
that he was done and stepped aside.

I certainly don't agree. They despised Kamala. 13 weeks out from the
convention was too late for primaries. The book's authors were too
worried about Josh Shapiro seeking the nomination, so they said one of
her first calls was to him. He immediately agreed to endorse her and
that meant there would be no open primary. The authors commented that JB
Pritzker called around hoping someone else would challenge her so he
could step in. He didn't want to be the only candidate challenging her.

Biden needed to announce he wouldn't seek a second term during 2023 for
there to be an open primary.

But then, rather than having a proper convention to choose a new
candidate from among several prospects, they essentially appointed
Harris. I don't really understand how that happened and can only
speculate that none of the other potential candidates thought they had a
chance of winning from a start that close to Election Day and just
decided to give it to Harris unopposed. They raised a bunch of money and
gave it to her, she blew it all, but failed to impress as a candidate.

Nah. They just didn't like the politics of running against her.

The Democrats messed up all the way along by not building a bench of
potential candidates going back to Obama's time in office. Everything
else follows from that.

It...  doesn't work like that. Obama came out of nowhere but gave that
one fantastic convention speech. Through a series of coincidences and
not because he was popular, he became United States Senator, and then
immediately started running for president. He couldn't stay in the
Senate unless he wanted to be a career Senator because he'd get saddled
with baggage.

There's no way to build candidates in waiting. They themselves have to
achieve something special in politics that cannot be imposed from
outside.

I'm sorr of finding Andy Beshear a bit refreshing as he's one of the few
Democrats who actually wins rural votes. Everyone else seeks votes from
city and suburbs without seeking votes from rural voters. We're the
party that routinely won elections in rural areas and not just in the
South, where under Jim Crow segregation there was no Republican Party.